Sarah Jessica Parker to Host “The Leonard Lopate Show”

Actress Sarah Jessica Parker attends the The 5th Annual DVF Awards in New York on April 4.

Associated Press

Sarah Jessica Parker has a new role: radio host.

On April 15 and 16, Parker will be at the helm of WNYC’s “The Leonard Lopate Show” while its namesake host is on vacation. “It’s thrilling and terrifying to sit in Leonard’s chair for a little while,” she said via email.

Her guests are heavyweights on the city’s art and cultural scene.

Glenn Lowry, director of the Museum of Modern Art, is scheduled for the April 16 program, which will also feature New York City Ballet principal dancers Ashley Bouder and Sara Mearns. Parker, who is well-known as a balletomane, also reached out to a former star of the ballet stage: Gelsey Kirkland, who was first a principal at City Ballet in 1972, then switched to American Ballet Theatre in 1974. After a long career, she opened her own ballet school in TriBeCa with her husband. Novelist Anthony Marra will join to talk about his book “A Constellation of Vital Phenomena.”